Month: August 2011
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News and Analysis (8/3/11)
“A new Gallup poll shows that they are more likely than Christians or Jews to object to the targeting and killing of civilians”: Muslims are the most loyal American religious group, new poll says (Christian Science Monitor) Poll: American Jews and Muslims share common values (Jerusalem Post) “Lying on a stretcher in standard-issue white prison…
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Ramadan Reflection: A Lesson from an Interfaith Friendship
One of the justifications for interfaith dialog is that in contemplating the religion of others one gets insights into one’s own. At the funeral of a dear Christian friend last month I had an insight so profound that both Christians and Muslims with whom I have shared it have insisted that I must write it…
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News and Analysis (8/1/11)
On the pretext that he is protecting Americans from foreign laws that would violate their constitutional rights (we already have a document that does that –it’s called the Constitution!), an Israeli settler “with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam” is behind “a cadre of conservative public-policy institutes and former military and intelligence officials”…
